Money-changing device.



E. D. HALE.

MONEY CHANGING DBVIGE.

APPLIOATIOI FILED SEPT 14; 1909 Patented Aug. 9, 1910.

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ELBERT D. HALE, 0F ENDICOTT, WASHINGTON.

MONEY-CHANGING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 14, 1909.

Patented Aug. 9, 1910.

Serial No. 517,662.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELBERT D. HALE, citizen of the United States,residing at Endicott, in the county of Whitman and State of Vashington,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in MoneyChangingDevices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention oomprehends certain new and useful improvements in moneychanging apparatus, and has for its primary object, a simple, durableand eflicient construction of coin handling device of this character bythe use of which change may be easily and quickly made and practicallyavoid the ne cessity of computatlon.

WVith this and other objects in view as will more fully appear as thedescription proceeds, the invent-ion consists in certain constructions,arrangements and combinations of the parts that I shall hereinafterfully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to thefollowing description and accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a money changing machine embodying theimprovements of my invention; Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional viewthereof, on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a top plan view with partsin section and other parts omitted; Fig. 4: is a front view with partsomitted and other parts broken away; Fig. 5 is a perspective view ofsome of the operating parts; Fig. 6 is a detail view of one of suchparts; Fig. 7 is a perspective view of some of the coin ejecting slides;Fig. 8 is an inverted perspective view of a casting which forms part ofthe machine and which will be hereinafter specifically referred to; Fig.9 is a side elevation of some ofthe parts of the actuating mechanism;and, Fig. 10 illustrates one group of yoke members arranged injuxtaposition to each other.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawingsby the same reference characters.

The casing A of my improved money changing apparatus may be of anydesired construction or design, but it preferably embodies a verticalfront'a and inclined top 6.

Within the casing and at the front thereof is a slide supporting bar 1which extends transversely as shown from one side of the openings.

j casing to the other and which is supported in any desired way as byscrews passing inwardly through the sides of the easing into socketsformed in end pieces 2. Above the slide supporting bar 1 there is acasting which embodies a horizontally disposed shelf 3 which is formedat its rear with a series of openings 4 of varying sizes, segmentalstacking boxes 5 extending upwardly from the shelf 3 and defining therear walls of the These boxes 5 are designed to contain coins ofdifferent sizes and denominations, the coins being stacked within therespective boxes and, the lowermost coin of the stack resting upon theupper surface of the slide supporting bar 1. The bar 1 is formed with aplurality of longitudinally extending supporting webs or rails 6designed to guide the coin ejecting slides 7 in their forward andbackward movement. The

slides are of course provided with openings which are coextensive, andcoincident, with the respective openings 4 of the shelf 3, and the bar 1is formed in its front edge with a number of recesses 8 whichrespectively describe arcs of the circles corresponding to the openings4 whereby when any one of the coin ejecting slides '7 is pushedforwardly, the lowermost coin in the corresponding stack will bepermitted to drop into a trough or tray 9 the walls of which converge ina downward direction so that the coin or coins ejected may be easily andquickly collected and removed from the tray.

Each slide 7 is provided at its rear end with an upwardly projecting pin10 over which is slipped an apertured ear 11 formed on or secured to thedepending arm of a bell crank lever 12. These levers 12 (there being onelever for each slide) are all ful crumed at their elbows on atransversely extending rod 13 secured at its ends within the casing inany desired way above the coin ejecting slides 7, and the upper arms ofthe bell cranks extend upwardly and rearwardly in the normal position ofthe parts, as clearly illustrated in the drawings. Preferably thesupporting rod 13 is braced at its middle by the obliquely extendingbrace bar 1 1.

For the sake of clearness, I deem it essential in the followingdescription of the parts to divide the bell crank levers and theiraccessories into groups; group X designed for the ejection of five, ten,and twenty dollar gold pieces group Y being arranged for the ejection ofsilver dollars and group Z for the ejection of fractional currency. Inaddition to the above named groups, there is another lever designated Nwhich is intended for the ejection of five-cent pieces commonly known asnickels. Furthermore, for the sake of clearness, I have provided thedifferent levers so as to distinguish one from the other with differentletters of reference from A to M in alphabetical order com mencing withthe lever at the extreme right designed for the ejection of the nickelsalone.

The coin ejecting slides for the X group are arranged singly as shownand the levers L and M for the ten and twenty dollar gold piece slideshave their upper arms offset near their rear extremities so that onewill lie one behind the other both of them being close to and alongsideof the rear wardly and upwardly extending arm of the lever K which isdesigned to operate the slide for the five dollar gold pieces.

In order to depress the arm of the lever K, the same is straddled by ayoke 15 embodying two parallel rods, and a connecting head 16, one ofsaid rods being extended upwardly from the head through an openingformed for it in the top I) and provided at its protruding upperextremity with a push button 17 displaying the numeral 5. The rear armof the lever L is straddled by a corresponding yoke designated 18 theupper protruding extremity of which is capped by a push buttondisplaying the numeral 10, while the rear arm of the lever M isstraddled by a corresponding yoke 19 capped by a push button displayingthe reference numeral 20. It will thus be understood by depressing anyone of these buttons, the corresponding lever will be individuallyoperated independently of the others so as to move its respective slideforwardly and eject the desired coin.

In order to combine the movements of the levers and eject a number ofgold coins according to the amount desired, the rear arms of the leversK and L are both straddled by a yoke 20 comprising three arms one ofwhich is extended upwardly and carries a push button with the numeral 15displayed thereon while the rear extremities of the rear arms of thelevers K and M are straddled by a corresponding yoke 21, which carriesat its upper end a push button which displays the numeral 25. The rodsof all of these yokes extend downwardly through openings formed in aguide plate 22 so as to properly guide the yokes and prevent them fromaccidental displacement.

From as much of the description as has preceded, it will be understoodthat in making change, when a five dollar gold piece is desired the pushbutton of the yoke 15 will be depressed; for a ten dollar gold piece,the yoke for the lever L will be depressed, and if a twenty-dollar goldpiece is desired, the yoke for the lever M will be depressed. Again, iffor example, fifteen dollars in gold are desired, the yoke 20 will bedepressed so as to actuate the levers K and L, and if twenty-fivedollars in gold are desired, the yoke 21 will be depressed operating thelevers M and K.

The next group of levers and concomitant parts to be described is thegroup Y con-- taining the levers G, H, I and J actuating the slides forejecting silver dollars. It is to be particularly noted, that there arefour of these slides arranged in superposed relation to each other. Eachslide from the lowermost slide upwardly in the series is cut out at onecorner as indicated at 23 to provide a clearance for the pin 10 of theslide underneath it so that the pin for the uppermost slide will actuateonly that slide, while the pin for the next slide underneath willoperate its slide and the slide above, the next pin will operate itsslide and the two slides above and the next pin will operate all of theslides, the pins respectively engaging the rear edges of the slidesabove, when the pins are moved forwardly by their respec' tive levers.

The lever J has secured to its rear arm intermediate of the ends thereofa stirrup 24: which is pivotally connected thereto and which extendsdownwardly and around the lever I and up between the levers I and H. Thelever I has secured to its rear arm a stirrup 25 which is pivotallyconnected thereto and which is provided with a laterally extending arm26 projecting over the lever J. The lever H is provided with acorresponding stirrup 27 having a laterally projecting arm 28 extendingover the levers I and J and the lever G is provided with a similarstirrup 29 having a laterally projecting arm 30 extending over thelevels H, I and J. The upwardly projecting rods of all of these stirrupsare arranged in a longitudinally alined series and all project upwardlythrou h the top I) of the casing being respective y provided with pushbuttons which display the numerals 1 2 3 and at respectively. From thisit will be understood that when the push button 1 is depressed, thelever J will be actuated to move one of the slides of the silver dollarcolumn forwardly and eject one silver dollar. If the lever I isactuated, it will operate the lever J also not only by the laterallyextending arm of the stirrup 25 but by the fact that the pin 10 which isconnected to the depending arm of the lever I will. tend to engage therear edge of the slide above it so that the two slides will be movedoutwardly simultaneously and two silver dol lars ejected. If the lever His actuated three silver dollars will be ejected and by the actuation ofthe lever Gr there will be four silver dollars discharged, the partsbeing manipulated according to the change and number of coins desired.

In the Z group of levers containing levers B,-C, D E and F, the slidesare all arranged singly except the slides for ten cent pieces ofwhichthere are two, one upon the other, one being cut out at its rear end asindicated at 31 so as to provide a clearance for the pin 10 of the slideunderneath. In this group, there is a coin ejecting slide for fifty-centpieces, or half dollars, one for twenty-five cent pieces or quarters,one for five-cent pieces, and, as above stated, two for ten-cent pieces.Commencing with the lever D which is connected to the lowermost tencentpiece slide, it will be seen that it is straddled by a yoke 32substantially like the other yokes above named and having a push buttonat its upper end displaying the numeral 10 The lever@ is straddled by ayoke 33 the push button of which shows the numeral 20 so that bydepressing the last named push button, the levers C and D will beactuated and eject two dimes in change while the depressing of the firstnamed push button will actuate only one of the ten-cent piece slides andeject only one dime.

In order that thirty cents may be ejected at one operation, the levers Band F are engaged by the outturned extremities of a W-shaped stirrup 34,so arranged that it will clear the intermediate levers C, D and E, themiddle post or head of this stirrup extending up between the levers Dand E, as do the posts of the yokes 32 and 33, so that all of the postswill be in longitudinal alinement with each other as will be understoodfrom the drawings and other description in this regard. If forty centsis desired without the necessity of using three operations to ejectfirst a twenty-five cent piece, a tencent piece and a five-cent piece,it is only necessary to depress the push button which shows the numeral40 which is mounted on the upper end of a post 35 which is substantiallyof U-shape as shown and which is connected at one end to a W-shapedstirrup 36, the bent upper extremities of which take over the rear armsof the levers B, D and F, the downward movement of this stirrupeffecting the simultaneous actuation of all three of these levers so asto eject at one and the same operation, the three coins above named.

In order to operate the lever E singly, when for instance, a fifty-centpiece is desired, the rear arm of this lever is straddled by a yoke 37,the upper extremity of which carries a push button with the numeral 5Oon it, while to operate the levers D and E to eject a fifty-cent pieceand a. dime simultaneously, the rear arm of these levers are straddledby a three-rod yoke 38, the push button of which shows the numeral 60.The Wshaped stirrup 39 engages the lever B and the levers E and F andhas a push button showing the numeral 80, it being thus understood thatby depressing this push button a fifty-cent piece, a twenty-five centpiece and a five-cent piece will all be ejected at the same time, tomake the desired amount. And a three-rod yoke 40 straddles the rear endsof all of these levers except the lever C which terminates shortthereof, so that by depressing the push button 9O of this yoke, thelevers B, D, E and F will all be operated to eject a fifty-cent piece, a

twenty-five cent piece, a ten-cent piece and a five-cent piece makingninety cents in change.

All of the rods of the various stirrups and yokes for this group Z passthrough openings formed in a guide plate 41 secured to and projectingforwardly from the inner wall of the back of the casing.

In view of the frequency with which coins of the five cent denominationare required in making change, the independent lever A is provided, thesame being secured at its lower end to an ejecting slide as shown andhaving pivotally connected to its rearwardly extending arm, an actuatingpost 42 capped by a push button showing the numeral 5, and for a similarreason the lever F is pro vided with a branch arm 43 which has acorresponding post 44 pivotally connected to it, such post being cappedby a push button showing the numeral 25. By this means, quarters andnickels may be ejected separately.

Guide brackets 45 are formed at their forward ends with forks by whichthey are adjustably connected to the lower face of the bar 1, the rearends of the brackets extending upwardly as indicated at 46 and servingas stops for the ejecting slides at the limit of their rearwardmovement. Corresponding stops are formed by pins 47 on the lower face ofthe shelf 3, being designed to engage the front edges of the slides whenthe same are pushed forwardly. To return the parts to their normalposition after being actuated, a series of springs 48 is provided, onefor each slide, the rear ends of said springs being all connected to atransverse rod 49 connected to the casing at the back thereof, while thefront ends of the springs are hooked around the respective pins 10.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanyingdrawing, the operation of my improved money changing machine will beobvious. When any number of coins are required, according to the changewanted, it is only necessary to depress the push buttons and thecorresponding slides will move forwardly so as to eject one or morecoins as the case may be. It will be seen that the operation of makingchange may be very quickly accomplished by my machine, and that theparts thereof are of very simple construction and few in number incomparison with the varied character of the operations to be performed.

It is to be understood that my invention is susceptible to variousmodifications, without departing from the scope thereof as defined inthe appended claims. For instance, it is of course manifest, that any ofthe arrangements of levers and correlated parts may be used to ejectpennies, and that some of the levers and concomitant parts may beomitted owing to the particular requirements of the case. As an example,a machine might be made which embodied the invention as herein disclosedbut omitting the elements for changing gold coins.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed as new is:

1. In a money changing apparatus, a slide supporting bar, a plurality ofcoin ejecting slides mounted in superposed relation to each other uponsaid bar, said slides being formed at their rear ends with cut-outportions, each exposing a portion of the slide underneath it, pinssecured to and projecting upwardly from the exposed rear ends of therespective slides, bell crank operating levers connected to therespective pins, an actuating stirrup connected to one of said leversand extending around the adjoining lever and up between said adjoininglever and the second lever from the one which is provided with thestirrup and provided at its upper end with a push button, a stirrupconnected to the lever next to the one provided with the first-namedstirrup, the second-named stirrup having a laterally projecting armextending over the first-named lever and provided with a post inalinement with the upwardly projectingportion of the first-namedstirrup, another stirrup connected to the next lever and having an armextending over both of the previously mentioned levers, and a post inlongitudinal alinement with the firstnamed post, said post beingprovided with a push button, and a corresponding stirrup connected tothe remaining lever and having a laterally projecting arm extending overall of the other levers, the last-named stirrup being also provided withan upwardly projecting post in longitudinal alinement with the otherpost and provided at its upper end with a push button.

2. In a money changing apparatus, a slide supporting bar, a plurality ofcoin ejecting slides mounted one above the other on said bar and formedat their front ends with openings, a stacking box mounted above saidslides in registry with the openings therein, said slides being formedat their rear ends with cut out portions each exposing a portion of theslide underneath it, pins secured to and projecting upwardly from theexposed rear ends of the respective slides, bell crank operating leversconnected to the respective ins, an actuating stirrup connected to oneof said levers, a stirrup connected to the next lever and having alaterally projecting arm extending over the first named lever, anotherstirrup connected to the next lever and having an arm extending overboth of the previously mentioned levers, and a corresponding stirrupconnected to. the remaining lever and having an arm projecting over allof the other levers.

3. In a coin changing apparatus, a slide supporting bar, a plurality ofcoin ejecting slides mounted one above the other on said bar and formedat their front ends with openings, a stacking box mounted above saidslides in registry with the openings therein, said slides being formedat their rear ends with cut out portions each exposing a portion of theslide underneath it, pins secured to and projecting upwardly from theexposed rear ends of the respective slides, bell crank operating leversconnected to the respective pins an actuating stirrup connected to oneof said levers, a stirrup connected to the next lever and having alaterally projecting arm extending over the first named lever, anotherstirrup connected to the next lever and having an arm projecting overboth of the previously men tioned levers, and a corresponding stirrupconnected to the remaining lever and having an arm projecting over allof the other levers, each of said stirrups including an upwardlyprojecting rod provided at its upper end with a push button, all of saidrods being in longitudinal alinement with each other.

4:. In a money changing apparatus, a slide supporting bar, coin ejectingslides mounted to move over said bar to eject the coins therefrom,stacking boxes mounted above said slides, and operating bell cranklevers connected to sundry of said slides and embodying rearwardlyextending arms, the rearwardly extending arms of one lever be ingstraight, and the rearwardly extending arms of the two adjacent leversbeing ofl'set toward said first named lever with their rear extremitiesin longitudinal alinement with each other, and yokes straddling saidlevers, one of said yokes engaging the rear straight arm abovementioned,two others of said yokes engaging the offset extremities of the othertwo arms respectively, another yoke engaging said straight arm and oneof said ofi'set extremities, and another yoke engaging said straight armand the other of said ofiset extremities.

5. In a money changing apparatus, a slide supporting bar formed in itsfront edge with recesses, slides mounted on said bar and radius to therecesses, stacking boxes mounted over said slides and in verticalalinement with the openings therein in the normal position of theslides, the slides being provided at their rear ends with upwardlyprojecting pins, bell crank operating levers having a movable connectionwith said pins, retracting springs connected to said pins to draw theslides rearwardly, and guide brackets connected at their forward ends tothe lower face of the slide supporting bar and projecting rearwardly andupwardlytherefrom, the rear upper ends of the guide brackets beingarranged to engage the rear ends of the slides to limit the rearwardmovement thereof.

6. I11 a money changing apparatus, a slide supporting bar formed on itsfront edge with recesses, slides mounted on said bar and formed withopenings corresponding in radius to the recesses, stacking boxes mountedover said slides and in vertical alinement with the openings therein inthe normal position of the slides, the slides being provided at theirrear ends with upwardly projecting pins, bell crank operating levershaving a movable connection with said pins, retracting springs connectedto said pins to draw the slides rearwardly, and guide brackets connectedat their forward ends to the lower face of the slide supporting bar andprojecting rearwardly and upwardly therefrom, the rear upper ends of theguide brackets being arranged to engage the rear ends of the slides tolimit the rearward movement thereof, the forward ends of said guidebrackets being forked and having an adjustable connection with the slidesupporting bar.

7. In a money changing apparatus, a slide supporting bar formed in itsfront edge with recesses, slides mounted on said bar and formed withopenings corresponding in radius to the recesses, stacking boxes mountedover said slides and in vertical alinement with the openings therein inthe normal position of the slides, the slides being provided at theirrear ends with upwardly proj ecting pins, bell crank operating levershaving a movable connection with said pins, retracting springs connectedto said pins to draw the slides rearwardly and guide brackets connectedat their forward ends to the lower face of the slide supporting bar andprojecting rearwardly and. upwardly therefrom, the rear ends of theguide brackets being arranged to engage the rear ends of the slides tolimit the rearward movement thereof, the stacking boxes including aforwardly projecting and horizontally disposed shelf,

and pins projecting downwardly from the shelf and arranged to engage thefront end of the slides to limit the forward movement thereof.

8. In a money changing apparatus, a plurality of coin ejecting slides, asupport therefor, operating bell crank levers connected to therespective slides and including rearwardly projecting arms extending onealong side of the other, yokes straddling sundry of said arms, andstirrups straddling others of said arms, some of said yokes straddlingonly one arm, and others more than one, and the stirrups embodying aplurality of rods which project upwardly from a common connecting pointwith bent extremities engaging other levers, whereby to avoid or clearthe intervening levers.

9. In a money changing apparatus, a plurality of coin ejecting slides, asupport therefor, operating bell crank levers connected to therespective slides and including rearwardly projecting arms extending onealong side of the other, yokes straddling sundry of said arms, andstirrups straddling others of said arms, other of said yokes straddlingonly one arm, and others more than one, and the stirrups embodying aplurality of rods which project upwardly from a common connecting pointwith bent extremities engaging other levers, whereby to avoid or clearthe intervening levers, said yokes and stirrups including upwardlyprojecting posts and provided at their upper ends with push buttons,said posts being in longitudinal alinement with each other, and one ofsaid posts being of U-shape for the purpose specified.

10. In a money changing apparatus, the combination with coin ejectingslides, bell crank levers having one arm operatively connected to saidslides respectively, one of said levers being formed with a main arm anda branch arm, means connected to the other lever and said main arm forsimultaneously actuating both of the levers, and means connected to saidbranch arm for actuating one of the levers singly.

11. In a money changing apparatus, the combination of ejecting slides,bell cranks operatively connected to said slides and having armsarranged side by side, and a W- shaped stirrup having ends connected tosundry of said levers, and a post extending up between the levers.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ELBERT D. HALE.

